Shutting down Artifact

Technology@lemmy.world – 121 points – 9 months ago

It's a shame! It was actually a good news source with a curated feed not run by Google!

• Artifact app to be shut down, citing a small market opportunity and the need to focus on newer projects.

• App's complexity and operations will be slimmed down, with the removal of the ability to add new comments and posts.

• Existing posts will remain visible, and core news reading capabilities will continue until the end of February.

Freedium link: https://freedium.cfd/https://medium.com/artifact-news/shutting-down-artifact-1e70de46d419

Makes me sad, i liked the ability to discuss the news on the comments

We're doing that here :)

There were many times someone else’s comment stopped me before I read the Johnathon Turley opinion piece Artifact kept trying to throw at me.

Thought this was about Valve's Artifact TCG, and was like "wait, didn't they already shut that down?"

Am I the only person in the comments that didn’t like Artifact? It was basically Digg v4. It was full of sponsored content and blog spam; and user’s couldn’t submit content.

It was everything people revolved about on other news aggregator platforms.

There's a thread from last week where some other alternatives were discussed: among them

Nuggets: News & Conversation: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nuggets-news-conversation/id6462796101
Feeds & Fediverse: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/newsbite/id1478566472
Feeeed: https://testflight.apple.com/join/ixRrWfQL
Feedly: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/feedly-smart-news-reader/id396069556
Perplexity https://apps.apple.com/us/app/perplexity-ask-anything/id1668000334
NetNewsWire: https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire

I think the concept of a "mixed reader" that can pull in Big Social / Fediverse / RSS and other curated sources has a lot of potential (Nuggets is the most interesting one to me here)

Nuggets not having an Android app is an interesting choice.

Thanks!

Unfortunately a lot of these are Apple-only and/or just RSS readers. I'll miss Artifact's algorithm.

We people who have android exists

Curious if this is a subtle attempt at flex, on the internet you never know

haha no, seems to just be a coincidence.

Been using it since before public release. I loved the news reader mode. It was so clean and simple. The news curation algo is solid. I will miss Atifact.

I remember trying it and disliking it. Wasn't very good, which seems to be echoed by other users. :p

Their recommendation algorithm was terrible. It just sent me every article from BookRiot and any article that mentioned whiskey.

I completely forgot I had installed this app until reading this post. Guess they are making the right choice!

I really liked their option to rewrite clickbait headlines. That saved so much time and frustration reading nonsense articles.

Found a couple more alternatives.

https://otherweb.com/

https://letmeknow.news/